ALL THROUGH CONFETTI.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1915, Page 12 (Supplement)

ALL THROUGH CONFETTI.

The writer of the Ladies' Letter 111 Melbourne Table Talk is responsible for the. following:There is a tale being told of a bridegroom that is decidedlv humorous, but at the same time a little spiey. so I do not, know whether I ought to rejieat it to vou, Kosalind. However, it is funii). lle'is one of those staid kind of indivi 1 mils alio thinks any panful pi-ueci'diii.: such as throwing cont'd I i a si ohjec tioiiable net, and he and his bride warn cd all and siindrv that none was |o b • thrown at their' wedding, as they ob jeded most strenuouslv. Of course, tins was a kind of challenge and led to a conspiracy. There was no confetti thrown. Xo; but their travelling clothes were deftly fixed lip with it. When tlfe happy pair set out, upon their honeymoon Ih-y were humiliated by showers of coni'cili falling around them at every moveiueii'., betraying them as bride and bridegroom. When thev were in the train, which was an express, thev resolved to shake it nut. The bride managed to do this jirelty well, but the more the bride-room shoo;; the worse if seemed to be, and 'lis friends had apparently lined his garments with the clinging, bet raying s-t nil": so he retired to the lavatory to remove some ~f his garments and shake then, lie,' had taken oil' what, -lack calls his '•bags," and was shaking them out of :he window, when a train passed going ; n Die oji|iosite direction, and they were whisked out of his hand. Then, worst horror of all. the bridegroom reenllel with dismav that all his ready cash about CI.V- was in one of the pocket-.: lie was ill a most awkward predicament. Minus a most important portion of attire, with his luggage some distance away in the carriage with his bride, and not even a friendly envelop iug overcoat: at, hand, he -was in a (ix! lie waited some lime, shivering, in the hojie that, someone would come alum.'. But. no luck. So he had to negotiate the corridor with his coat wnijipcd liin'rwise about him. and |>oke his head into their compart incut with a hasty word of explanation and a meek reipic.-t to his ncwlv-madc spouse to hand him uui his suit-ease, lie made anxious inquiries about the missing garment and the colilollh of the pocl.d, I, MI op io lII.' Ii j I,raid lb..- :ilor\ In- nmi iacn. I „„ news of the •■bags- ~r (he C 1... All tVis trouble through confetti: